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Yesterday I was on my way someplace when my car died.

Fortunately it died just as I was approaching a Home Depot, so I was able to quickly pull into their parking lot with the last little bit of momentum that the car had.

It was then I discovered that I had left my cell phone at home. Curses! So I walked into the store and they very kindly let me use their phone to call, yes, you guessed it, AAA. They were very nice and sent a tow truck directly out. It arrived about ...

Welcome to my fantasy! If I were immensely wealthy, here are some of the places I would choose to live. You are welcome to visit anytime!




This is my home in Venice, Italy.



And here is my home in Paris, on the Ile St.-Louis.


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Shall I write of snow falling and the light,
Of days entwined in storm and thought and you?
Shall I speak of seeing faces beautiful
When I am cast in awful shade’s repose?
A golden light seems to throw its eye on me
Yes, snow and light do exist together
The white world hinges on this wild surmise
I’ll try to sing for it and for you, too
Let us ignore our outer arctic thoughts,
And the wolf prowling round the heart that lays
Still ...

my brother learned to shoot a gun and I
learned that not even the ground I trod on
could give me refuge. I peep at daylight
from my crumbling forsaken window and
shudder when lights that are not stars explode
Some days I play on the swings with my friends
our feet try to touch the clouds and we laugh
we eat oranges, almonds, and toffee
once at the market I saw a girl with
a tin bucket on her head selling sweets
her eyes looked ...

It's snowing. I've dreamed of this day for seventeen years. That's how long I've lived in Texas. That's how long I've missed the snow.

Yesterday was a l-o-n-n-g day. A student came to take a test after school, and two boys came to put my smart board knock-off together. They were hilarious. It took them two and a half hours.We called the janitor one time who came and brought them a phillips head screwdriver. I was grading papers and concentrating fairly intently on that. Occasionally ...